Tilapia Farming

Raising and selling tilapia is a lucrative business for most fish pond and fish pen owners here in our country. The main reasons are because they are hardy, grow quickly and require inexpensive feeds. The two types I know are raising tilapia in fish pens and in fish ponds.

If you live near a bay like for example Laguna bay, it’s much easier than a fish pond because the water is already there and feeding them is not as much as when you will raise tilapia in a fish pond because there is natural food already in the lake like planktons or other small organisms. Building pens on the bay with the use of bamboo and of course labor, fingerlings, feeds and permits are the essential things to worry about.

But if you will consider digging a farm land for raising tilapia, you will need a bigger capital. Let’s say at least 500,000 pesos. You have to lease a land, rent a bulldozer to dig a pond, invest a water pump if you are far from a water source, buy fingerlings, a professional service of an aquaculture engineer and register to a local government.

There are also factors to consider like fish density for a given square meter of pond which are applicable to both fish pen and fish pond. Just to give you an idea for example you should only raise 3 to 8 tilapia per square meter of the fish pond. Quality and quantity of feeds to be given should also be considered. If you have business plan of tilapia farming it is best to attend a seminar in TLRC which they are conducting every month. Just search this site for TLRC Courses Available for their schedule or go to the TLRC website.

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@ For Business Partner -I’m looking for business partner. Please contact me. I have business proposal for bangus grow-out in laguna lake. Minimum of 200K maximum of 500K budget. I have bangus fishpen available in laguna lake

as part of the livelihood program of our organization (ANCOP fo Couples for Christ), we plan to raise tilapia in backyards inside drums? Is this possible?
are there available materials to read or seminar to attend regarding this?

@ Lozano R. Brozas
TRC have an electronic library called eTRC – eLibrary. You have to register and buy a prepaid card to buy their training books and videos which you can download from their website. They have a training on tilapia culture but not sure if they have the raising the tilapia inside drums.

hello. I already have a fishpond. I just stated it a month ago. i dont have enough knowledge regarding tilapya farming but my husband and I just tried it by ourselves. How can I improve my production how about the cleaning of the ponds, is it ok if the water is almost brown in color with I think oil? I am using pure feeds from b-meg/. Please help. Thank you.

As part of nitiatives for sustainable livelihood program at Lanuza Surigao Sur, we introduce agri-aqua learning farm dvelopment on these stage breding ground establishment wee already started to biuld up. source of good quality fengerlings are the one problem…can you help me searching nilotica near Lanuza surigao sur? thanks